Znak niejasny, baśń półżywa

The poet's own garden at Milanówek becomes a stage on which everything passes and dies. Sparrows keep him company there, the elements are on his side, and all living things share the same poverty on the same road towards death. The verse borrows the sing-song rhymes of old baroque devotional poetry, but where a baroque poem would close with a moral, these close with a modern twist: soon being may admit that nobody was here for any reason, and the speaker will face nothingness alongside the herbs and the apples the birds have pecked at. Idyllic and lightly ironic in tone, the poems court non-being as eagerly as existence, almost flirting with death.

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About the book

Form

Poetry

Length

61 pages in the original

Genres

Nature (assigned by AI)

Set in

Poland

First published

1999 by Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy

Author's age

64 when first published